In article <#WNHUkr0KHA.2196@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>,
russval@mvps.org
says...
>
> You appear to have some pressing need to validate and defend your own
> experience. That experience is anecdote and should be recognized as such for
> the benefit of other readers of this thread.
> The experience of many is far more valid than the experience of one. In
> this newsgroup over the last 12 years we have confirmed that the following
> information is not transferred when you export and import a PST file:
> 1. Custom Forms
> 2. Custom Views
Never tried, don't have any myself and don't have any customers with
custom forms and views and I'm betting that 90% of people out there
don't either.
> 3. Connections between contacts and activities
What activities?
> 4. Received dates on mail
Sorry, I see the date the email was received on every email that is
imported from a PST. Don't know how you are missing it - please try it
yourself.
> 5. Birthdays and anniversaries in calendar
All calendar items, appointments, such as Birth days, Anniversaries,
that I've entered or customers have entered, are imported fine.
> 6. Journal connections
Don't know anyone that uses this, so I can't comment.
> 7. Distribution Lists
Distro lists, as in ones created in Outlook, in your contacts folder,
are also imported properly, worked fine since Office XP that I know of.
> 8. Rules
This is misleading as the Rules are not exported in a PST, Outlook
includes a function to export rules and they import just fine.
> 9. Link between Contacts and the address book view, which cannot be
> re-established until a new profile is created and the data migrated
> properly.
Never seen or tried this, switching VIEW modes in contacts shows all
contacts in the different views.
> If none of that information is important, then sure you can export and
> import. Why you would want to remains a mystery, however, since simply
> copying and opening the PST file is much easier and preserves all of the
> above information.
You've listed a lot of things that are incorrect for an export/import
between different versions as well as from/to the same version.
> The cardinal rule when providing advice in these groups is primum non
> nocere. Your insistence that export and import is the best way to transfer
> Outlook data to a new installation violates that rule. Readers of this
> thread should know that so they can make up their own mind on what they want
> to do. This is a public newsgroup. Your opinion is welcome but needs to be
> placed into context.
I have not insisted that Export/Import is the best anything, I've only
disputed what I've seen as incorrect. I don't maintain that either is
BEST, but I suggest you try each of the above items you list and come
back and let us know you were wrong.
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